And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are d… - Ryan Holiday

Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.

We think that courage means being unbreakable.
Nah.
It means getting back up when you've been broken.

Because your kids are watching.
Because the cause needs you.
Because you won't let evil triumph.